Maybe it has to do with your language settings as well? I imagine filtering out English will make your experience much less US-centric.
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Filtering out English is a bad idea because 80% (no quote just an estimation) of the content here is written in English.
Yes, that is the implication I was making to answer the original question. The majority of content here is in English-->the majority of English-first users are from the US-->this is why Lemmy seems so US-centric.
I was being a little obtuse because it's like a French-filtered user asking why social media seems so France-centric even though there's lots of social media in Africa--there are other languages that people use that you're not necessarily seeing on your feed.
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Europe is trying to solve their problems while we are just throwing fuel on the fire.
Well mine is, but only because I blocked a lot of German and French language instances, because I don't speak those languages, and therefore don't see that stuff anymore. Before that like half of the posts I saw were in German.
Also I still see plenty of Canadian and UK topics all over the place.
But you are missing out on the Stör memes, and all the ich_iel posts.
I will confess that I don't get the ones about German politicians.
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What do you mean?
The United States is a giant nation in the English language. It comprises of a majority of English as a first language speakers and a large percentage of English speakers overall. American media output is also going to be primarily in English, including local news.
In contrast, a nation like Germany is likely going to speak in German when possible. This likely includes media like news. So, when it comes to news articles, I don't expect English news from Germany to be written in anywhere near the quantity of English news written about California.
I feel like it would be like asking why Portuguese media focuses on Brazil.
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